Word: lags
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...campus population did lag over the weekend if the number of meals eaten is any indication. While an average of 1377 meals were served in the Leverett house dining hall over the last two weekends, only about 1200 were served this weekend, according to Tom R. Provost, Leverett dining hall manager...
That skill will be crucial if a Dante-like robot is sent to another world. On Mars, for example, says Lavery, contact would probably be limited to once a < day, and even then the enormous distances would result in a minimum 10-minute time lag in communications. Dante II is not quite smart enough for full autonomy, but considering that it took less than a year to design and build, it is remarkably close to self-sufficient. Says Lavery: "The consensus was, if we had another four or five months, we would have had that ability...
...some criticism for the sound engineering. Quite typically from Philips, the sound sparkles with digital clarity and is graced by a glossy sheen, but the engineers have failed to compensate for the Concertgebouw Hall's famed reverberation. Even though orchestral entrances are almost always well-synchronized, the subsequent lag time in the hall results in an acoustic clouding that renders the sound more two-dimensional than one might expect. Very exposed passages (e.g. the wind soli at the beginning of the second symphony's Allegretto grazioso) suffer less from the reverberation, and the sheen makes up for the slight lack...
...ratings are not what the World Cup is about. In America soccer is still a sport to be played, not watched. There is still a generational lag. The people who one day will shell out the bucks to take their kids to see the future Boston Bullfrogs or Tampa Toads play soccer don't have kids yet. They're teenagers whose fathers played Little League baseball or Pop Warner football. Some of those parents are as clueless about soccer as they are about the Beastie Boys...
...World War II in relation to the Japanese yen. Twenty-five years ago, a $1 bill was worth 360 yen. Today it's worth only 100 yen, and at one point last Tuesday it dropped below 100. The most common affliction of U.S. travelers to Tokyo is not jet lag. It's sticker shock. For people who pay in dollars, the top hotels are so expensive, they ought to offer mortgages...